Journal for May 24, 2006
The most exciting thing that happened this week was that my Polyphemus Moth cocoon – the one that I’ve been carrying back and forth to the farm and watching so carefully – finally hatched.
The most exciting thing that happened this week was that my Polyphemus Moth cocoon – the one that I’ve been carrying back and forth to the farm and watching so carefully – finally hatched.
This was the week my craft group came to visit – unfortunately it turned rainy and cold the day they came. We got nearly an inch and a half of rain in those two days. We took several damp walks, made a great Indian dinner, and had a good time in spite of the weather.
Spring is a wonderful time of year – I get so excited to see the flowers again that I try to take photos of all of them – so there are lots of pictures this week.
This was the week of the Prairie Enthusiasts tour of our farm. It was great fun – 10 people came, some people I knew from the River Falls area, and several we had never met from LaCrosse, Winona, Buffalo City, and Waumandee. It was so nice to have prairie folks to talk to about our […]
This week I found lots of flowers in bloom – some when I walked with the craft group folks, but even more later, after we had some rain and some more hot weather.
The weather seems to have gotten into a pattern of snowstorms every time we go to the farm. When we get there the hills are brown, or at least some ground is showing. Then there’s a snowstorm, and by the time we leave it’s winter again.
This was a hunting weekend, and it was cold and windy, so we didn’t want to walk on the tops of the hills. I worked on dividing seeds, and we cut down some of the birches on Hidden Oaks Point.
Cold winter weather has arrived, though so far we don’t have much snow.
August was sunny and warm, with just enough rain to keep the prairies green. Then, in this last week, we had more than 5 inches of rain. It raised the level of the beaver lake, but fortunately didn’t cause any flooding.